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The Significance of Asymmetrical Sexual Isolation and the Formation of New Species

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Evolutionary Biology

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Asymmetrical sexual isolation among groups of related species, especially in the genus Drosophila,has been the focus of a series of recent papers (Kaneshiro, 1976, 1980, 1983; Kaneshiro and Kurihara, 1981; Watanabe and Kawanishi, 1979, 1981, 1983; Wasserman and Koepfer, 1980; Markow, 1981; Arita and Kaneshiro, 1979; Ahearn, 1980; Powell, 1978; Ohta, 1978; Giddings and Templeton, 1983; Dodd and Powell, 1985). The central theme of these papers concerns the hypothesis that asymmetries in mate preference experiments may (or may not) provide a basis for predicting the direction of evolution among a group of closely related species or even among geographical populations within a single species.

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  1. Hawaiian Evolutionary Biology Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822, USA

    Kenneth Y. Kaneshiro

  2. Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States, Washington,D. C., 20510, USA

    L. Val Giddings

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Kaneshiro, K.Y., Val Giddings, L. (1987). The Significance of Asymmetrical Sexual Isolation and the Formation of New Species. In: Hecht, M.K., Wallace, B., Prance, G.T. (eds) Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6986-2_3

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